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0. P. 'DELASSUS & A. ROBBINS.

- METALLIC BATTEN. I

No. 360,763. Patented-Apr. 5,1887.

. WITNESSES I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

OERAN FRANCIS DELASSUS AND AMBROSE ROBBINS, OF GRAND EDDY, MO.

METALLIC BATTEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,763, dated April 5, 1887.

Application filed November 13, 1886. Serial No. 218,772.

To azz whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CERAN FRANCIS DE- LASSUS and AMBROSE ROBBINS, both residents of Grand Eddy, in the county of Perry and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Battens; and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of. the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing,which forms apart of this specification.

Our invention relates to metallic battens; and it consists in the improved construction and mode of applying the same, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawing the batten is shown as it is applied, both in perspective and in cross-section.

A represents the batten, having a longitudinal ridge or corrugation along its central portion, and having its edges bent slightly out of the plane of the main portion of the batten. The batten can be made of sheet-iron, galvanized or painted, or it can be made of tin,

and the ridge or corrugation can be of any suitable shape or size.

B B represent the boards or covering of a building the joints between which the batten is to cover. These boards have a groove, 0,

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ridge or corrugation placed between them will form a sort of trough. The shape of this batif the battens are upon the outside they will a never even commence their destructive work. If used upon the outside of a buildingas for the roof or sidethe groove in the sides of the edges of the boards forms a channel, in which the water is carried without permitting it to find its way under the edges of the battens to the joint between the boards. The same construction can also be used in making box or other compartments that are liable to be exposed to the water.

Having thus described our invention, we clairn- The combination, with boards provided near their edges with grooves or gutters, of corrugated nietallic battens the edges of whose side portions are bent over the edges of said gro'ove, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereunto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

OERAN FRANCIS DELASSUS. AMBROSE ROBBINS. VVit-nesses:

JOSEPH HAG AN, JOHN F. Cox. 

